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Nicotine is reinforcing, provides sensory stimulus that enhances satisfaction, affects performance, controls mood and body weight, and may be self-administered to relieve symptoms of some psychiatric disorders, such as depression.
 

Nicotine is related to affect modulation; many former tobacco users who experience depression during abstinence (American Psychiatric Association, 1996).